White sky
Outside, the sky is white as snow,
but there is no snow in Africa today,
not in Accra, Djabouti, Entebbe,
Addis Ababa or Zanzibar.
It’s an impossibility, the idea
of blizzards, gales, aberrations
of cold and ice, while we sit here,
hugging the heat to our pores.
The board flicks names: Brazzaville,
Lilongwe, Kinshasa, Babouti...
Umbali wa mwisho wa safari-
Have a safe journey –
says my screen. On the map,
our destination, engulfed in white.
Newsflash of an earthquake in Haiti – all over
our spinning planet, weathers, shudders, rocks, cracks.
Fields of cloud, banquets of pattern
hiding the stories below.
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